The Night Children

By Reed, Kit

Publishers Summary:
Inside the Castertown MegaMall, the biggest mall in the world, live the night children—runaways, abandoned kids, kids who got lost and were never found. They only come out at night, after all the shoppers are gone.When thirteen-year-old Jule Devereaux visits the mall after the mysterious disappearance of her aunt, she becomes a pawn in the war between two gangs of night children: the Castertown Crazies, led by the stalwart Tick Stiles, and the Dingos, whose leader is the batty Burt Arno. What the night children don’t realize is that the megalomaniacal owner of the MegaMall, billionaire Amos Zozz, knows all about them. To him, they are vermin—“rats” living in his beautiful mall—and he has plans to exterminate them. Julie, Tick, and Burt must join forces if they want to survive.…

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ISBN
978-0-76532-038-4
Publisher
Starscape


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School Library Journal

Reviewed on March 1, 2009

Gr 4-7 Jule'rents have been missing for 10 years and, most recently, the girl's aunt has disappeared. Then Jule finds herself left behind after the MegaMall closes for the day. She is absorbed into one of the competing tribes of children who live there, scavenging for their subsistence needs. Jule soon learns that virtually all of their parents have disappeared. As the plot unfolds, readers are int...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Horn Book Guide

Reviewed on January 1, 2008

Lost at the MegaMall, Jule is rescued by the "night children" who secretly live there. Working together, they...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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